Thanks to everyone who came out for our second DRM demonstration! Richard Stallman and his friends from NYFairUse joined us. RMS donned the sacred-sandwich board, we witnessed a domestic disturbance, handed out over 700 flyers, met many interested and shocked consumers and only got a little cold. As Tom mentioned in his earlier post, a [...]
Mark Russinovich, the blogger who first publicly disclosed the Sony Rootkit, has written a new post summarizing the current state of affairs. Even though Sony officially recalled the infected discs two weeks ago, there are reports that Sony hasn’t properly been notifying stores about the recall, and many stores still have the discs on [...]
Sounds like Sony is officially recalling all the CD’s it has shipped with the rootkit, before we even got a chance to take action ourselves! They’re also going to have an exchange program for people who already have the infected discs, and it sounds like they’re going to provide a better uninstaller. Meanwhile, [...]
Mark Russinovich, who originally discovered the Sony Rootkit, has posted another update on the current state of things. There are two basic points which haven’t been covered yet…the first is that most AV vendors are removing the cloaking in the same unsafe way that the official patch does, which could cause your computer to [...]
My theory is that Warner (and the rest of the television industry) doesn’t want to make the same mistakes that their older (as well as rage filled) sister made by suing everyone on the net into oblivion before they realize the utility and profit potential of the Internet. So they’re planning on releasing thousands of [...]
The Attorney General has proposed a tough new set of copyright enforcement laws dubbed the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2005, or “IPPA”. It would criminalise consumers simply for trying to make unauthorised copies of music, movies and software, whether they are successful or not. The bill has not yet been put before [...]
First of all…our next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 at 8:00pm on the 7th floor of Kimmel. We (well, I can’t be there, but everyone else) will be discussing the impending lecture, our next demonstration, our newly allocated budget, and the Google Print debate happening on the 17th. Inga is also supposed [...]